241: How 3 IIT engineers built one of India's biggest beauty brands | Manish Taneja | Unstarted
Do you need an original idea to start a company? Do you need to be a consumer of your category? Do you need the "right" co-founders?
Manish Taneja was none of those things. He grew up in Faridabad a self-described "frog of his own well." He went to IIT and "felt very small." He became a banker, then an investor, then started a beauty company with two other male engineers, with no female co-founder, and no personal stake in the category. He still built Purplle into one of India's largest beauty platforms.
In this episode of Unstarted, Avnish Bajaj and Manish sit down to work through the…
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